Kristina Lybbert

Hope For The Future - Poem by Kristina Lybbert

The sun sit high in the skyTrapped in my school prison I sighI look out the window to my rightWishing that it was already nightI see a young girl with a babe in her armsThe babe is holding a few lucky charmsI pause and think for a bitFor I have nothing better to do than sitWhy does she walk all alone? And look like she's been worked to the bone? Where the father of this child could be? Or does he not look and see, Look and see the way she strugglesWhile her and the babe try to huddleWhat if he is sitting in my classI wonder if I know the assThe bell rings and I have to leaveBut as I go I hope and pray and believeThat the world will one day beA better place for you and me

Poet's Notes about The Poem

I was texting a fellow writer late one night and he told me to write him a poem. I asked for a topic, or title, anything to get me started. He replied 'There was a girl walking by the school yesterday morning and she was holding a baby in her arms' This poem is what i sent him shorty after.